NOCSAE News

September 11, 2019 Kara Leigh Lofton-West Virginia Public Broadcasting The community health center New River Health has partnered with Fayette County schools to offer a concussion-management protocol for athletes. The idea behind the protocol is to test high school athletes before they are injured so medical providers have a baseline on record. The...

September 10, 2019 Goldberg Segalla LLP-Lexology The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled on August 20, 2019, that Lackawanna Junior College had assumed a duty to care for the well-being of two of the school’s football players, Augustus Feleccia and Justin Resch. On March 29, 2010, Feleccia and Resch were injured while participating in an...

September 11, 2019 Joanne Laucius-Ottawa Citizen (Toronto, ON) A CHEO emergency room physician is one of the researchers behind a “living guideline” to help prevent, recognize and treat concussions in children and youth. The living guideline for pediatric concussion is the first of its kind in the world. It will be maintained and developed...